Creative Opportunity

Bryan Gordon, who made a splash with his directing debut on “Ray’s Heterosexual Dance Hall”--it won a 1987 Oscar as best live-action short--finally has his first feature coming out. It’s “Career Opportunities,” a light comedy for writer-producer John Hughes and Universal that’s due next year.

You’d think Gordon would be excited, but nooooooo .

What has him really jazzed is “Pie in the Sky,” the “relationship comedy” that he’s written and is now casting at the Samuel Goldwyn Co. (He also wrote “Ray’s.”) “Pie” examines the developing sexuality of a young man from birth to 23, focusing on “the relationship between his mother and the girlfriends in his life and how the key girlfriend is tied to (all the others).”

After seeing “Ray’s,” Gordon says, Hughes approached him to direct “Career Opportunities,” which stars Frank Whaley as a security guard who encounters a pretty teen-ager (Jennifer Connelly) hiding out from her dad overnight in a Target store.

“I took it to learn about myself and how to make a movie,” Gordon says, “but I really want to just do my own work (now).”

He has high praise thus far for the creative freedom on “Pie” that he’s experienced at Goldwyn.

“I’m so excited by it I can’t tell you,” Gordon says. “It’s really great that I can do it the way I want to do it.”